General Presentation
Why: The changing humanitarian landscape…
Challenges
Opportunities
Why: Changing Humanitarian Landscape
• More severe and frequent crises – 100 million people
seeking humanitarian assistance in each of the last three
years. People with humanitarian needs will double
between 1990 and 2025.
• Limited resources – funding requirements have more
than doubled to over USD 10 billion per year. Losses due
to disaster amont to USD 100 bn. Yet not enough
investment in preparedness and prevention (only 3%
spent on prevention and preparedness)
• New actors and models of assistance. Technology, access
to information, mobile phones, 50% of developing
countries will have access to internet – access to
information.
In September 2013, the UN S-G called for a World
Humanitarian Summit in 2016.
All humanitarian
stakeholders – governments,
UN, NGOs, affected
communities, the private
sector and other partners –
will come together to build
from successes and create an
agenda for the future, that is:
inclusive, effective and
accountable
Objectives
Set a forward-looking humanitarian agenda, to ensure
the humanitarian system is fit to respond to future
challenges.
• The summit will be an opportunity to take stock of
achievements, share lessons and good practices.
• First ever World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016
in Istanbul, Turkey.
The Summit process will seek input from four stakeholders
National governments
• Affected countries, donors and
interested governments
Associated partners
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Private sector
Militaries
Charities and foundations
South-South bilateral
Meeting the
humanitarian
needs of
people
Community responders
• Affected people and their local
and community organizations
• Diaspora
Formal international
network of humanitarian
organizations
• UN agencies, regional and
international organizations
• Civil society organizations international, regional, national
• Think tanks and academia
WHAT: Four Themes
- Accountability to needs and
expectations of affected
people, host states, donors,
agencies, implementing
organizations
- Definitions, principles and
systems
- Elements: transparency,
accountability, performance,
professionalization,
standardization, data
sharing
- New business model to align
humanitarian and
development approaches in
a more complex operating
environment
- Joined-up planning,
prioritizing and funding
programs
- Elements: Disaster risk
reduction, resilience,
transition, preparedness,
capacity building
- Explore strategic ways to
adapt and improve – a
proactive vs. reactive
system
- Creating a system that is
open to experimentation
and systematic thinking
about improvement
- Identify and implement
new products, processes
and positions to face
operational challenges
- Strengthening the capacity
of the humanitarian system
to reach people with
lifesaving assistance and
protection, prevent and
respond to displacement,
and meet the specific
needs created by violence
in urban settings.
- Elements: protection,
access, displacement
Partnerships
Themes will be developed and defined through consultations with partners
Types of Consultations
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Thematic consultations
Regional consultations
Online platform
Linkages with ongoing processes: post2015; Sendai; Climate Change Conference
Regional Consultations
Region
Timeframe
1 Western and Central Africa (in Abidjan)
19-20 June 2014
2 North and Southeast Asia (in Tokyo)
23-24 July 2014
3 South and East Africa
October 2014
4 Eastern and Western Europe and Other Groups
(WEOG)
February 2015
5 Middle East and North Africa
March 2015
6 Latin America and the Caribbean (in Guatemala)
April 2015
7 Pacific Islands
Q2-2015
8 South and Central Asia
Q2 or Q3-2015
9 Global Consultation
Q4 – 2015
Online Consultations
Inform, Update, Engage
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Launches on 5 May 2014
Share information about WHS process
Reach a ‘wider’ audience
Provide a forum for discussions, voting, collaboration
Solicit input for regional consultations
Share findings during/between regional consultations
Architecture
• World Humanitarian Summit Secretariat
• Thematic Teams
• Regional Steering Groups
A summit secretariat is being set up on behalf of the S-G
to facilitate the process and deliver on the target outputs
Director WHS Secretariat
Operations
Functions:
Output 1
Output 4
Output 7
Output 9
• General
operational
support including
procurement, HR,
logistics and
finance
• Financial and
donor reporting
• IATI (transparency)
Strategic Planning and
Outreach Team
Functions:
Output 2
Output 4
Output 7
Output 8
Output 9
Thematic Coordination
Team
Functions:
Output 3
Output 5
Output 6
Output 7
Output 9
• Support to regional and global
consultations
• Support to work of thematic
teams
• Advocacy and outreach
• Support drafting of
background documents for
regional consultations.
• Internal and external
communications
• Management of online
consultations
• Coordination of regional input
to Secretary- General’s report
• Support to summit
organisation
• Overall drafting and
coordination of SecretaryGeneral’s Report
• Connectivity with other
related ongoing thematic
initiatives (UN system and
humanitarian)
• Support to summit
organisation
Geneva Liaison Officer
Functions:
All 9 outputs
• Liaise with
Geneva
humanitarian
community
on all outputs
World Humanitarian Summit
Thematic Team Structure
RCs/HCs
Intergovernmental and
post-2015 discussions
Thematic Team (1 of 4)
WHS Thematic
Coordinator
(100%, P4)
Regional
consultations with
four constituencies
Thematic
Team
Members
(30%)
Listening Project
Ongoing Feedback from
interviews with affected
people
Occasional workshops and
brainstorming sessions
Private sector consultations
Ongoing processes:
IASC, WEF, DRD, etc.
Global network of thematic
experts
Agency contributions
Task Team Members:
Core team of 8-10 experts to
contribute 20-30% of full time at
home organization to design and
carry out consultations with
broader network of experts,
gather substantive inputs and
draft recommendations to set
Summit agenda.
Global Expert Network:
Experts on each theme from
around the world and across the
humanitarian community are
brought in on an as-needed basis
to contribute views, lessons
learned and substantive inputs –
no cumbersome ‘working group’
commitment
WHS Thematic Coordinator:
Experts on each theme are based in
WHS Secretariat to lead work of
thematic task teams and ensure that
the concrete asks and
recommendations are generated to
shape the Summit agenda by mid2015 - time commitment is 100%.
Regional Steering Groups
• 1 Regional Steering Group/ Regional
Consultation
• Co-Chairs: Host country +++
• Secretariat: OCHA
• Function: issues/theme, agenda, participants,
input into background doc, endorsement of
report from regional consultation, network
Join us.
www.worldhumanitariansummit.org
whs@un.org